Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi and Jacob Collier

Tuesday 2nd June 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough) (Lab)]

6. What steps he is taking to help increase the production of domestic clean power.

[Jacob Collier (Burton and Uttoxeter) (Lab)]

12. What steps he is taking to help increase the production of clean power.

[The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Ed Miliband)]

The two renewables auctions under this Government have secured power for the equivalent of 23 million homes, and we are embarked on the biggest nuclear building programme for 50 years. The war in Iran shows that we need to go further and faster, so we will open our next renewables auction next month. We recently signed contracts for a fleet of Rolls-Royce small modular reactors. Clean power is already reducing wholesale electricity prices by up to a quarter, and those steps will do more to protect families and businesses across our country.